Chris Bohjalian’s 25th novel, “The Jackal’s Mistress,” was inspired by the true story of a Southern woman who helped an injured Union soldier during the Civil War.

When Anderson Carman decided to collaborate on a comic textbook about the Civil War with history professor Andrew Fialka, he ...

On my periodic trips to Atlanta, I often stop at one of my favorite bookstores, A Capella Books near Inman Park. During my most recent visit, I picked up a ...

After the Civil War, those torn from loved ones and family members by slaveowners placed newspaper ads in the hope of reunion ...

The novel opens with a bang, but there’s a thin, repetitive feel to the based-in-fact tale of a Confederate woman’s saving a ...

Only Wallace Stegner could, as his protagonist says, “make a book that anyone will read out of lives as quiet as these.” ...

Freeman’s book Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War (Farrar, Straus and Giroux) is out on September 11. She spoke with Smithsonian about what antebellum Congress was ...

Civil War America, a small number of Jewish slaveowners defended the practice. Other prominent Jews joined with abolitionists ...

J. Matthew Ward, PhD, assistant professor of history, will give a presentation on his book, Garden of Ruins: Occupied Louisiana in the Civil War, at the Lincoln-Douglas Debate Museum at 128 North ...